Watchman&#39;s registering apparatus



I. STUART.

WAICHMANS REGISTERING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 25, 1919.

Patented Feb. 7, 1922.

a! i n m. H 8 3 5 4 WITNESSES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH STUART, or PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

WATCHMANS REGISTERING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 7, 1922.

Application filed February 25, 1919. Serial No. 279,191.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosnPH S'rUARna citizen of the United States,residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain'new and useful Improvements inVatchmens Registering Apparatus, of which the following is aspecification.

The prime object of my invention isto provide a simple and'efiicientwatchmans registering apparatus, and more particularly an apparatus ofthe character referred to designed for use in buildings to which thewatchman does not have access but which he is required to visitduringcertain periods.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate an application of myinvention,

Fig. l-is a part vertical sectional view and a partfelevational view ofan apparatus embodying my invention applied to the door of a building;is

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional'view taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken on line 33 of Fig. 1.

' Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a casing designed to besecured to the interior of a door 2 of a building or at some otherconvenient point inside of a building. As shown, casing 1 is providedwith a door 3 through which access may be had to its interior, and 4designates an elongated casing projecting downwardly from and incommunication with the interior of casing 1, the guideway being disposedat right angles to the plane of the supporting structure 2, that is,perpendicular to the supporting structure. Casing 41 is designed toreceive and guide a tape or strip 5 of paper or other suitable material,as it is wound oflia reel or revoluble tape or strip carrier 6. Asshown, tape 5 is provided with graduated markings 7.

In the embodiment of my invention as shown, the tape is designed to bedischarged from or wound ofl its carrier intermittently. That is to say,a certain amount of tape is wound from the carrier during apredetermined period of time, for example, eight or ten hours during thenight, after which period, the movement of the tape or strip is arrestedfor a predetermined number of hours, after which its carrier is againactuated to discharge the tape.

The means employed for moving the tape from its reel or carrier includesa clockwork 8 of any suitable construction. The clockwork is. disposedwithin the casing 1 and is supported on the back plate 9 thereof lymeans of brackets 10. 11 designates the winding key of the clockwork. Asthis clock mechanism per se forms no part of the present invention, Iconsider it unnecessary to fully describe the same.

In addition to the clockwork and adapted to cooperate therewith, Iemploya wheel 12, said wheel being mounted on an end of a rotatableshaft 13 of the clock mechanism and adapted to be revolved thereby.Wheel 12 is of relatively large diameter and has a portion only of itsperiphery provided with teeth. As illustrated, the toothed portion 14 ofthe wheel extends for about onehalf of the circumference, theremainingportion of the periphery of the wheel being smooth. I

Tape carrier or reel 6 is loosely mounted onafixed rod 15 projectingfrom theback wall of casing 1, and carries a pinion 16. Interposedbetween pinion 16 and'wheel 12 is an idler pinion 17, the teeth of thelatter being-adapted to mesh with the toothed portion 14 of wheel 12 andthe'teeth of pinion 16.

For the purpose of marking the tape to designate the fact that thewatchman has visited the building, a suitable tool or key 18 isprovided. This key is carried by the watchman and is designed to beinserted through a key-hole in the door or other part of the building towhich the registering apparatus is applied. As shown, the key is formedwith a stem having a right angled projection 19 adapted to be enteredinto the guide casing 4 through an opening a thereof. Casing 4 is alsoformed with an opening I) (see Fig. 3) directly opposite opening a.These openings permit the key to be manipulated in such a manner as tomark the tape as the latter is fed down through the guide-casing 4:. Inthe form shown, the portion 19 of the key is designed to penetrate thetape, but it is evident that some other form of tool may be employed formarking the tape.

By having the markings 7 of the tape designate hours and fractionsthereof, it will be understood that approximately the exact time ortimes the watchman has registered may be ascertained.

In the use of the invention, that portion of the tape bearing the marksmade by the watchman 'or a portion of the end the n tape that shouldcontain the marks or registrations, during a predetermined period ortime, is severed from the continuous strip after the expiration of saidperiod.

What I claim is: V

* Iregistering apparatus comprising a casing adapted to besecured to asupporting structure, a tape guide depending from said when so moved,and means in the casing for moving the tape guide. f

2. A registering apparatus comprising a casing adaptedto be secured to asupporting structure, a tape guide depending from through the dependingsaid casing, said tape guide being C0111.

structed to hold'the tape at right angles to the plane of a supportingstructure to which thecasing may be secured and provided withregisteringopenings, a removable marker comprising a'shaft' having a'radially extending arm arranged to be swung through-an arc and toproject through the registering openings when so moved, and means in thecasing 'for intermittently causing a strip of tape togravitate throughthe .guide.

. 3. In combination, a supporting structure having an openin therein, acasing secured thereto, tape .feedmg'mechanism in the casing, a guideperpendicular to the supporting structure and extending downwardly fromthe casing, said guide" having an opening thereinadjacent the opening inthe supporting structure, and a removable key adaptedto projectthroughthe opening in the supporting structure and having an angularextension thereon adapted to be projected through the opening in saidguide and travel through an arcuate path upon turningthe key whereby amarking will be made in a piece of tape in the guide. 7 r

4. The combination with a supporting structure, of a casing secured toone side thereof, -a" guide way having registering openings thereincarried by thecasing and in a plane perpendicular to the plane of thesupporting structure, means in the casing for advancing a strip oftapethrough the guide, and removable means operable from the opposite sideof said supporting structure -for -marking on said tape, said meanscomprising a. key having a stem portion passing transverselythrough thedoor and having a marking portion extending at right angles to thestemand arranged to travel in an arcwhen the stem is rotated, said marking portion'being adaptedto be projected through said registeringopenings in the guide-way when the key is rotated.

In testimony whereof I afiixmysignature witnesses.

in presence of two JOSEPH STUART.

.Witnesses: V V

VJ. GEOGHEGAN,

. LOIS WINEMAN.

